A Midwife's Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The Unredeemed Captive, by John Demos The Sea Captain's Wife, by Martha Hodes America's Longest War, by George C. Herring The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan D. Spencer Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, ed. by Thomas Dublin
How Washington Really Works, by Charles Peters Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, by Mark Mazower The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World, by Hugh Kennedy The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources, ed. Kenneth Gouwens The World's Wisdom, by Philip Novak Empire, by Niall Ferguson
Biographies:
John Adams, by David McCullough
Autobiographies:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass Walden, by Henry David Thoreau Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin Autobiography, by Mark Twain
Historical Novels:
North and South Books I-III, by John Jakes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, by Tadeusz Borowski Winds of War/War and Remembrance, by Herman Wouk The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey The Sunne in Splendour, by Sharon Kay Penman The Amelia Peabody series, by Elizabeth Peters The Last Silk Dress and Time Enough for Drums, by Ann Rinaldi The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez
Historical films (I'm not vouching for their accuracy!):
Gettysburg Glory North and South The Lion in Winter A Man for All Seasons Amistad Amazing Grace Amadeus Roots Gandhi Dances With Wolves Apollo 13 The Great Escape The Book Thief Lincoln
General History:
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (Googlebook link ) Style in History, by Peter Gay Don't Know Much About History, by Kenneth C. Davis Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen A History of Britain, by Simon Schama 1066 And All That, by Sellar and Yeatman Europe: A History, by Norman Davies A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani Africa's Discovery of Europe, by David Northrup Inventing the Middle Ages, by Norman F. Cantor
Civics Films:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dave
Wag the Dog
My Fellow Americans
Recount
Thank You for Smoking
Documentaries:
Why We Fight
Outfoxed
Food, Inc.
Freakonamics
Super Size Me
A Midwife's Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Unredeemed Captive, by John Demos
The Sea Captain's Wife, by Martha Hodes
America's Longest War, by George C. Herring
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan D. Spencer
Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, ed. by Thomas Dublin
How Washington Really Works, by Charles Peters
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, by Mark Mazower
The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World, by Hugh Kennedy
The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources, ed. Kenneth Gouwens
The World's Wisdom, by Philip Novak
Empire, by Niall Ferguson
Biographies:
John Adams, by David McCullough
Autobiographies:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs
The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography, by Mark Twain
Historical Novels:
North and South Books I-III, by John Jakes
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, by Tadeusz Borowski
Winds of War/War and Remembrance, by Herman Wouk
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
The Sunne in Splendour, by Sharon Kay Penman
The Amelia Peabody series, by Elizabeth Peters
The Last Silk Dress and Time Enough for Drums, by Ann Rinaldi
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez
For a more complete list, see historicalnovels.info .
Historical films (I'm not vouching for their accuracy!):
Gettysburg
Glory
North and South
The Lion in Winter
A Man for All Seasons
Amistad
Amazing Grace
Amadeus
Roots
Gandhi
Dances With Wolves
Apollo 13
The Great Escape
The Book Thief
Lincoln
General History:
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (Googlebook link )
Style in History, by Peter Gay
Don't Know Much About History, by Kenneth C. Davis
Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen
A History of Britain, by Simon Schama
1066 And All That, by Sellar and Yeatman
Europe: A History, by Norman Davies
A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani
Africa's Discovery of Europe, by David Northrup
Inventing the Middle Ages, by Norman F. Cantor
Civics Films:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dave
Wag the Dog
My Fellow Americans
Recount
Thank You for Smoking
Documentaries:
Why We Fight
Outfoxed
Food, Inc.
Freakonamics
Super Size Me